Job 36:27
Hebrew Text— Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
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He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.